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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States [syn: copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix]
2: venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia [syn: copperhead, Denisonia superba]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1775 1. a common pit viper (Agkistrodon contortrix) of the eastern and central United States usually having a copper-colored head and often a reddish-brown hourglass pattern on the body 2. a person in the northern states who sympathized with the South during the American Civil War

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a venomous viper, Agkistrodon contortrix, native to N. America. 2 a venomous cobra, Denisonia superba, native to Australia.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Copperhead Cop"per*head`, n. [From its color.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper. 2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]